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Raritan dcTrack®

DCIM Operations Software

Raritan dcTrack®
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What is dcTrack?

dcTrack is an award-winning, easy-to-use solution that provides you with real-time information about your facilities, networks and IT. dcTrack clearly visualizes your infrastructure to help you manage placement of your IT equipment, make informed capacity management decisions and keep accurate track of your data center assets. dcTrack is easy to implement, integrate, administer and operate, providing a fast ROI.

Why Choose dcTrack?

Best Value
  • dcTrack offers the simplest licensing of any software in its class
  • dcTrack’s licensing model allows anyone from anywhere within the licensee environment to manage any number of data centers

Reduce Operation Expenses
  • Automate manual and time-consuming processes
  • Eliminate need to query available resources
  • Eliminate manual effort to trace and troubleshoot circuits and devices

Fastest and Easiest User Interface
  • Web-based standard graphical UI
  • Most common interrelated tasks are performed from one screen
  • Creating new items is quick and easy. The integration with AutoCAD® makes creating and positioning of a new cabinet on the floor map fast and easy
  • Visualization tools are informative and intuitive for technical users and executives alike
  • Finding logical and physical relationships and dependencies are just a few clicks away

Best Feature-set on the Market Today
  • Dashboard
  • Intelligent Search, Reserve and Place of IT items
  • Ticketing API for integration with 3rd party ticketing systems
  • dcTrack was designed from the ground up to support modern data centers
  • dcTrack is unique in its class for support of virtual servers, blade servers and true IP address space management
  • dcTrack is also unique in its ability to track power and sum up loads across all three phases of all power sources



Easily Manage Data Center Assets, Change, and Capacity

If your data center has become so large and dynamic that managing assets, space, power, cooling, and personnel has become impossible, we have the answer for you.

dcTrack® is an award-winning DCIM operations solution that provides you with real-time information about your critical facilities, networks and IT Assets. It features detailed information about your infrastructure and provides visual mappings that help you manage placement of your IT equipment, make informed capacity management decisions, and keep track of your data center assets.

When integrated with a CMDB or change management system for workflow functionality, dcTrack provides a fast ROI especially during any data center relocation, consolidation, or new build project. dcTrack can be easily deployed as a standalone DCIM operations solution or with Raritan’s DCIM Monitoring Software — Power IQ for power and environment monitoring.

Intelligent Capacity Management
  • Available power, space and network
  • Search, place and reserve
  • Complete power/network path

Change Management
  • Workflow for moves, adds and changes
  • Approvals and status
  • APIs to third-party ticketing and CMDB systems

Accurate Asset Management
  • All data center physical resources and logical connections
  • Maintenance/lease information
  • Intelligent rack asset strip

Platform Options
  • VMware® Virtual Appliance
    • Our application software, database and hardened Linux® operating system are fully tested and ready to load on your VMware platform
  • Raritan Hardware Appliance
    • Our application software, database and hardened Linux operating system are loaded onto our enterprise-class, rack-mountable 2U server with dual power supply and redundant fans



Optimal Planning with Intelligent Capacity Management
  • Easily search for and reserve space, power and network connectivity for all IT assets
  • Rich filtering allows quick search by several asset parameters
  • Time-based reservations to support what-if capacity analysis
  • Replace several inaccurate Excel® and Visio® files and trips to the data center

Manage Accurately with Comprehensive Asset Management
  • Quickly locate servers, network and storage equipment
  • Track detailed information on data center IT equipment
  • Trace physical and logical relationships between equipment
  • Integrates with Raritan’s intelligent Asset Management Tags (AMT) for real-time asset location in racks to the 1U level

Quickly Move, Add and Delete IT Equipment with Change Management
  • Create work orders, approvals and verification to ensure work is doneaccurately and on time
  • Enforce best practices workflow and meet ITIL framework guidelines
  • Improve productivity and efficiency of data center operations staff

Sophisticated Visualization, Analysis and Reporting
  • Visualize AutoCAD® and Visio floor plan drawings in real time
  • Work with a feature-rich, easy-to-use and intuitive dashboard
  • Visualize floor space, front/rear–rack/row Visio-like elevations
  • Visualize complete power chain and network connectivity chain

APPLICATIONS

Automate Data Center Provisioning

Rapid change in the data center is the order of the day due to the enterprise’s increasing reliance on IT services. Timely provisioning of the many data center resources to meet the corporation’s service needs is a major challenge. Because data centers often suffer from inaccurate or incomplete inventory records, provisioning cycles are much longer than necessary, and can result in missteps, re-work, missed deadlines, and service outages.

Using Raritan’s dcTrack Data Center Infrastructure Manager you will have an up-to-date view of all data center assets, a controlled change/workflow process and rules based tools to automate and accelerate the provisioning process.

An automated, well-managed provisioning process will lead to faster delivery cycles, increased staff productivity and reduced error-rates. You can meet your deadlines and SLA’s, while minimizing the possibility of service outages. And on-time rollouts of reliable IT services will delight your internal and external customers.


Intelligent and Efficient Capacity Management

Your data center is likely the most expensive square footage in your company, with today’s large data center builds costing tens of millions of dollars. With new builds so expensive, there are enormous incentives to make optimum use of existing capacity. Ad hoc management of capacity results in many issues: space and power shortages, stranded capacity and fragmented resources. On the other hand, over-provisioning can lead to an enormous waste of capital and expenses. Finding the right balance is difficult without the right tools.

The dcTrack Data Center Infrastructure Manager gives you the tools to do intelligent capacity management. dcTrack’s powerful floor plan visualization tools and color-coded capacity views highlight the available space, power, networking and cooling resources. But it doesn’t stop there – with dcTrack you can also drill down to the most granular level to view individual power and data connections. Plus, dcTrack enables complete power chain management, so that you can properly manage power distribution – even balance 3-phase power loads.

And the benefits are enormous – by carefully managing and utilizing existing capacity, and evenly balance power cooling and space to avoid stranded and fragmented resources, you can make full use of your existing resources. dcTrack will enable you to defer costly equipment purchases, delay costly, new builds and minimize capital expenditures.

And the benefits are enormous – by carefully managing and utilizing existing capacity, you can defer costly equipment purchases, delay new builds and make full use of your existing resources. By evenly balancing power cooling and space, you can avoid stranded and fragmented resources. You’ll make optimal use of your data center assets, minimize capital expenditures and put an end to the constant reorganizations to free up resources.


Data Center Builds, Moves and Consolidations

Like it or not, major data center changes – whether new builds, moves or consolidations – are a continuous headache for data center managers. They are further complicated by the data center’s multiple, inter-dependent organizations --IT, networking and facilities--needed to plan and construct the modern data center. Coordination of these “silos” is a major obstacle, especially with the multiple (often out-of-date) spreadsheets, databases, CAD drawings and systems that “document” the average data center.

dcTrack’s integrated facilities and IT database can help you to plan and organize major data center changes. dcTrack provides detailed, real-world modeling of racks, servers, network, cabling, power cooling and floor space. And with its change and work-order management, you can control, coordinate and manage the many technicians and contractors involved in a major data center project. dcTrack’s powerful visualization tools break down the barriers between the data center “silos” to enable a “shared, single version of the truth” that can unite your project team.

With dcTrack, you can accurately and efficiently plan, manage and complete your data center project. With the increase in productivity and quality, you will meet, or even beat, your project deadlines and budgets, to the delight of your internal and external stakeholders.


Reduced Manual Effort for Compliance and Audits

Most data center managers do not have an up-to-date inventory of the equipment in their data center, not to mention the connections between this equipment. And, if they do, then it is typically spread across multiple spreadsheets, drawings, files and systems. So, how do they respond to the constant requests for compliance, regulatory, financial and energy information, including requests related to Sarbanes-Oxley, FDA regulations, EU Code of Conduct, as well as internal regulatory organizations? The standard approach is time-consuming, periodic physical inventories as well as ad hoc trips to the supposedly “lights-out” data center.

Managers of data centers equipped with dcTrack have up-to-date inventory records of facilities, devices and their interconnection. This data can be used to generate accurate, timely reports which can help you to respond to internal and external requests for information – quickly and without trips to the data center.

The result is timely, accurate compliance and reporting with reduced staff effort. You will save money, increase productivity and be prepared for the next, last-minute request. And possibly even keep the lights out in your lights-out data center.


The most comprehensive and easiest to use data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool to efficiently manage IT assets, capacity and changes.


Capacity Management and Dashboard
dcTrack provides real-time resource utilization data for better electrical, cooling, floor, cabinet, cable and network capacity planning. Quickly see how much capacity you’re using and more importantly, how much is available.

End-to-End Multi-Hop Connections
  • Server to patch panel
  • Patch to patch
  • Patch to switch
  • Connector types


Intelligent Asset Tracking Integration
With Raritan’s unique Asset Management Tags and Asset Management Sensors (AMS), dcTrack provides an accurate, automated, real-time inventory of all IT assets and their locations, down to the 1U level.

Intelligent Search, Place and Reserve
Quickly find space, power and network connectivity for IT devices, simplifying capacity planning and change management. Reserve capacity for future provisioning of new IT equipment.

Visualize Floor Map
The data center floor map is linked in real-time to the AutoCAD® or Visio® floor plan. Any changes made to the CAD background are immediately visible and recognized as new objects in dcTrack. dcTrack users can define their own custom views for quick access to their resources. A management dashboard offers several color-coded charts to easily view heat and power load distributions as well as data network and cabinet resources throughout the data centers.

Visualize Cabinet Elevations
dcTrack provides a quick and simple method for data center managers to visualize a group of cabinet elevations on a single screen. Cabinets can be grouped by physical adjacencies such as data center rows or logical groupings based on cabinet content. With another click, the elevation views can be changed to front, rear, or descriptive text views. Whether viewing the cabinet row from the front or rear, the cabinet left to right order can be set to match actual order or alphabetical order.

Visualize Item and Port Trace
Once the cabinet elevation is visualized, dcTrack provides extensive views to drill down on item and port details. By simply clicking on an item in the cabinet view, a detailed image of the item is presented depicting all ports with dynamic labels. This image can be changed to front or rear views with a single click. The end-to-end circuit map of a port is visualized by clicking on a port label for further drill down.

Visualize Power Path
dcTrack offers a unique tool to visualize the full electrical circuit dependency beginning with the data center power source downstream to the rack PDU receptacle. dcTrack automatically calculates the power load at intermediate points in the electrical circuit path including UPS, PDU, breaker panel, outlet, power strip and power strip branch fuses. The PDU and related cabinet will be highlighted on the floor plan.

Cabinets
In this screen, the user manages the cabinet location assignment and can easily and quickly view its contents both visually and in text format. This eliminates the need to maintain separate drawings in third-party applications such as AutoCAD or Microsoft Visio®. This screen provides a quick summary of the cabinet’s network and environmental metrics such as network ports, power usage, heat dissipation, and weight.

Server and Network Items
These screens allow the user to view, edit and add serve rand network items. From a single server screen, dcTrack can support standalone servers, blade servers, and virtual servers. The user can assign an unlimited number of network and power ports and applications to each device, which can be instantly visualized on the device front and rear views. Built-in intelligence will allow the user to assign IP addresses and VLANs from available networks as well as assign color codes.

Data Cabling Items
In this screen, the user can manage the cable infrastructure as it is installed in the data center. dcTrack supports all known cable types, connectors and topologies. It supports various design architectures such as distributed and centralized topologies. The system is flexible to support and manage real-life labeling scenarios. Cable panels can be any size and can be assigned to any rack unit or to positions above or below the cabinet. Horizontal wire managers are also supported.

IP Address and VLAN Management
dcTrack simplifies IP space management in the data center thus eliminating cumbersome and error-prone spreadsheets. It defines subnets using an intelligent IP address calculator and assigns each subnet a name, a location, a VLAN number, and color codes. Then it assigns subnets to switches to manage VLANs. Remembering subnet ranges and default gateways with complex subneting is a daunting task. Let the IP query identify the subnet and its details for any IP address with ease.

Power Distribution Management
dcTrack is unique in that it offers complete management of the power infrastructure in the data center. Power management begins with the UPS power feeds. It handles virtually any power distribution design whether it is PDUs or RPPs, whether it is homerun distribution or overhead power busways, or whether it is single phase or 3-phase sources and loads. This screen helps visualize the circuit breaker panel as it exists in the PDU. This is critical in keeping all three phases in the data center balanced.

Power Outlets and Power Strips Management
dcTrack offers advanced power management to help data center managers achieve maximum efficiency in power consumption. Real-time SNMP plug-ins allow users to capture actual power draws, temperature, and humidity from smart power strips. dcTrack is also capable of tracking power strip branch circuit fuses. Users have maximum flexibility in tracking virtually any power strip attribute: voltage, phase, plug type, port density or mounting position.

Automate Data and Power Connections
Once items such as servers and network equipment are assigned, dcTrack’s built-in intelligence and automation tools simplify the building of relationships between these items. Whether it is a single or multi-hop connection, whether it is a network, SAN, point-to-point, or power connection, dcTrack can build these end-to-end connections based on user-defined rules. Such rules can include IP subnets, VLANs, cable color code, cable labeling, and power circuit diversity.

Automate Move Management
When moving a device or a server from one cabinet to another, a chain of related tasks occurs. dcTrack’s built-in automation tools do the hard work. The process begins by suggesting a suitable cabinet that has sufficient rack unit space and power resources. Additionally, based on user-defined rules, it will guide the user in finding the optimal network resources such as IP subnet, VLAN, and cable color code. Disconnect and new connection work orders are then automatically generated.

Change Management
dcTrack change management offers a clear and well-defined workflow to support and enforce best practices throughout the data center organization. Any significant change such as adding, deleting, or moving an item requires the user to follow a structured request process. Once requests are reviewed and approved by dcTrack’s gatekeeper, then work orders are issued to affect the requested change. Each step in this process is tracked by date, time and user name for future audit trail.

Library
dcTrack comes loaded with an extensive visual library of items including servers, hosts, network equipment, PDUs, power strips, and data cabling panels. It also includes a comprehensive library of power and data connectors. Each item comes ready with attributes such as manufacturer name, model, size, rack units, power draw, and heat dissipation. It also includes front and rear views of each item. Users can also edit and add items to the library as needed.

Reports and Search Utilities
dcTrack includes many valuable and well-laid out reports that include text and graphics to provide system details and environmental capacity metrics for proactive and effective management. The reports’ user interface has a comprehensive filtering and sorting utility. The search and trace utilities provide quick methods for looking up items or connections by providing key information about the item or any component of the connection path. The results can be exported to an Excel file.

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